Rural health systems pushed to the brink, Shirley MacLaine’s love for her dog, and is my neighbour snubbing me?
Rural health practitioners argue that staff shortages have reached such a crisis point that patients’ lives are being put at risk. How did things get so bad, and what, if anything, can be done to fix a broken regional health system? From the Life Matters archives, a 2004 interview with Shirley MacLaine, and an apparent snub from a neighbour in this week’s Too Hard Basket.
